Sentences with phrase «consciousness of better»

If in the course of a synthesis there were consciousness of better or worse alternatives and the ability to choose either, that aspect of the choice would be a morally responsible free choice.

One condition of a morally responsible choice is consciousness of better or worse alternatives (AI 21; CNT 92, 97).

He provides for the consciousness of better and worse alternatives when he describes the common practice of man.

Not exact matches

Self - consciousness can cause us to put on a mask or attempt to please those whom we perceive as having greater status or power than we do, while simple laziness makes it easy to overlook the average Joes or Janes on the street and offer them less than the best version of yourself.

-- Gary Douglas, international best - selling author, investor, antique collector and founder of the personal development company, Access Consciousness.

But when you suspend your own experiences as the marker for how the world works, it allows space in your consciousness to better receive and understand the plight of your customers, Especially when they don't mimic your own.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

Near - death studies are about the best we have and anecdotally I think that many people do report «conscious» experience whether that's due to anoxia or otherwise there is no substantial evidence suggesting the absence of «consciousness.»

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict between people of good will.

(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to social reform and probably various sorts of social class sortings out, but the themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)

This, as we have seen, is in order to make sense of Man's intentional consciousness, creative behaviour and organic brain, as well as his destiny in Christ.

Oppression Claimed to be systemic and part of group consciousness, as well as individual acts, that disadvantage certain social groups.

Easily the best «Jesus book» of our time, this has to be read with the consciousness that its author was writing for the general public rather than specifically for theologians or theological students.

Everywhere, as we are well aware, the lines of active phyletic development grow warm with consciousness as they approach the summit; but in one clearly - marked region at the centre of the kingdom of mammals, where the most powerful brains ever fashioned by nature are to be found, the lines glow red - hot; and already at the heart of this region there burns a point of incandescence.

This means that, boldly walking where Kant feared to tread, Hegel has identified the content of consciousness with consciousness itself, with self - consciousness, and is well on his way to giving the Kantian transcendental ego, as spirit, the «true something,» an ontological significance that Kant did not intend.

John N. Findlay, one of the best among Hegelian scholars, describes the «Unhappy Consciousness» in this penetrating and significant statement: This Unhappy Consciousness is aware only of its total loss of all that previously reassured and filled it: its anguish might find expression in the words of the Lutheran hymn «God is dead.»»

The patient is next invited to be seated in a reclining chair, taught to relax all his muscles, calmed by soothing words, and in a state of physical relaxation and mental quiet the unwholesome thoughts and untoward symptoms are dislodged from his consciousness, and in their place are sown the seeds of more health - giving thoughts and better habits.

But Father Heisig indirectly and implicitly suggests that the church might best be understood as the «Divine Without»: «groaning for self - consciousness and development, achieving its first self - reflective glimpses of divinity in the man Jesus and growing into that awareness through the course of history.»

While there are still good reasons for believing that man does have some freedom of choice at his highest level of consciousness, it is a freedom within a context of very severe limits, which have been imposed upon him by his creatureliness.

Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15

As your race ascends their forms will go to a place of waiting where they will better learn to understand their new shift of consciousness.

Heidegger's philosophy well shows us how an intuition of Being, alongside faith in God, can contribute to ecological consciousness and promote that «dwelling» which lives in harmony with the earth.

Teilhard's importance, Berry believes, lies in his comprehensive vision of the universe as a psychic - spiritual as well as a physical - material process, his perception of the human as the consciousness of the universe, and his shifting of the focus of Western religious concern from redemption to creation.

He writes explicitly: «I shall assume that the process thinkers are right in holding that an adequate metaphysics of time must recognize dynamic becoming in nature as well as in human consciousness.

Intercessory prayer for «all sorts and conditions» of men and women requires us to bring them from the margins back to the center of our consciousness to attend to their well - being.

Meanwhile, traveling to the strange land of creatures called Mulefa, Lyra's mentor Mary Malone discovers Dust and its true connection to consciousness and environmental well - being.

For the good guys in the story, however, Dust represents the elemental force of consciousness.

I love life in the consciousness of impotence, and Whitehead's three stages of encounter with God are well known to me.

Then God and heaven... are now and here; and a change in human consciousness, from sin to holiness, would reveal this wonder of being» (Unity of Good [First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1887], p. 37).

Santayana's definition suggests the best answer I can give to that question: in practice, in fact, in life, I find myself still loving life in the consciousness of impotence.

Good and rapid communications and travel raise the consciousness among the (oppressed) groups and help in their local and global networking for the realization of their rights.

There are other good feelings which are not the lifting, life - changing feeling of the consciousness of God's presence.

Consciousness itself is the ability to,,, (oops,,, well, you said «sort of» a test right?

This is not to say that practices ascetics engage in can not be entered into as tactics or methods: fasting, silence, vegetarianism, chanting, formal meditations, and celibacy, if freely entered into as methods (never as «good works» — for they are not such), may prove helpful for some people bent on self - purification or the unleashing of altered states of consciousness.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

The source of the problem, as he sees it, is this set of assumptions: that those elements that are prior (clearest) in consciousness are genetically primitive, that sensory data are the most primitive data of experience, that the elements of experience most clearly expressed by language are the most primitive, and that conscious introspection is the best way to identify the most fundamental elements of experience.

The full - fledged arrival of historical consciousness in theology, best viewed in the often tortured, always honest, reflections of both Troeltsch and Lonergan, only heightened the need for new reflection in hermeneutics.

Or, to switch images, Christian teaching provides one set of inputs into human consciousness, but other inputs are always cycling through that consciousness as well.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

This sense of the word is best illustrated in Hosea, where the ghastly double rupture of marriage and covenant is in prophetic consciousness a fait accompli, and where the prophet draws an analogy between the relationship of husband and wife and that of Yahweh and his people.

Let us now say good - by for a while to all this way of thinking, and turn towards those persons who can not so swiftly throw off the burden of the consciousness of evil, but are congenitally fated to suffer from its presence.

This sense of commission is simply a well - developed consciousness of dependence.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

Such a beginning for a student of history is not unnatural, but if ever that boy is to become a real historian — as well may be the case — little by little the consciousness of what is excluded by his study will grow dim.

First, you see how the entire consciousness of the poor man is so choked with the feeling of evil that the sense of there being any good in the world is lost for him altogether.

But the one abiding service which a fine home can do the children is to put deep into the grain of them the consciousness that in themselves is something sacred, rather than violate which they would better die.

To our own consciousness there is usually a residuum of worth left over after our sins and errors have been told off — our capacity of acknowledging and regretting them is the germ of a better self in posse at least.

A good way to continue our exposition now is to connect it with the challenge which William James, who had championed «psychology without a soul,» issued to philosophers in his famous essay of 1904, «Does «Consciousness» Exist?»